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#649 - Anil Seth - Does Your Brain Hallucinate Conscious Reality?
Modern Wisdom
The Mirror Self-Recognition Test
I think that rather than using echo location the servers have just memorized the rooms layout incredibly well but you know my bedroom I tried to go to the bathroom last night without turning the light on so it wouldn't ruin my sleep and I crashed into something. There is some part of their spatial awareness their proprioception which has been tuned up for them to be able to carry plates through a room with tons of people in all talking. For dogs smell all-faction is so much more important so there are people trying to develop an olfactory mirror test for a dog. We tend to overemphasize or we tend to strongly emphasize visual stuff as humans we feel we're very visual
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